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merrilark · 2 hours

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What a coincidence

#jfjgjgjjfjb #the umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #luther hargreeves

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merrilark · 12 hours

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I am extremely soft about how BJ hunches forward to shield Clare and shushes her. It's not a thing that's brought up in the films, but she's in her early 20s here and BJ had just turned 16 a month ago, yet he consistently and unquestioningly takes the caretaker role. He protects her and keeps her calm enough to escape the Karachi Social Club shooting, he does his best to keep her morale up while they're hiding out, tends to her through her quickly crumbling mental health, and actively tries to find ways to get them out of their bleak situation. All before he's even 18 years old. And he keeps fighting to 25, when things finally end and he can finally rest.

Particularly, though, I can't look at that third screencap and not see shades of who BJ was implied to be when he was still under Rev. Laws' roof. Again, the films don't touch on it, but the novels suggest that while BJ did not have close or even very good relationships with the other abused neighborhood boys, he still was willing to take punishment for their disobedience. So I don't think that it's a huge leap to say that he probably looked after and comforted them as well, and... doesn't that body language kind of look like someone consoling a frightened child? Maybe. I could be looking too deeply at small gestures--there are only so many ways to shush someone, after all--but the thought still twists at my heart.

BJ cares so much for so many people. It's a shame that his compassion was what usually ended up getting him hurt.

#bj anderson #red riding #meta #meta: bj anderson #meta: red riding

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merrilark · 14 hours

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Significant Women in Film History: 1900s-1920s

Anita Loos (1881-1981)

Born in 1881, Anita Loos spent her childhood in San Francisco. At the age of eight, her father urged Loos and her sister to begin acting in a stock company. Although acting made money for Loos and her family, she held dreams of being a writer. By 1911, Loos would be introduced to short films through the theater where she acted, which would play the reels after performances. She would soon try her luck writing screenplays and soon be writing and sending in scripts to the Biograph company. Her scenario The New York Hat would be the first to be produced. By 1915 she had moved to Hollywood, where D.W Griffith secured her a job on the payroll at the Triangle Film Corporation, making her the first writer to ever be put on a payroll at a production company. She would go on to write a number of sucessful action films for Douglass Fairbanks. Her films were often noted for their witty intertitles and Photoplay would go on to dub Loos as” The Soubrette of Satire” because of this. Throughout the 10’s and 20s, Loos screenwriting career would continue to prosper. By 1925 Loos would publish her most famous work Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which would be adapted into a film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russel in 1953 (although she had no part in this particualr adaption). The novel proved popular enough that she would be able to adapt her novel for the Broadway stage not soon after and write a sequel, But Gentlemen Marry brunettes in 1927. Although she took a break due to marital issues she would return to writing for the silver screen with Red Headed Women and continue to write for MGM throughout the 1930s. In 1936 she would win an Academy Award for the film San Francisco. She would write the screenplay for one of the most famous films of the 1930s, The Women in 1939. Although she was apprehensive about changes the censors required, the film has gone on to remembered for its sharp dialogue that only Loos could have written. Throughout the 1940s she continued writing for the screen and stage. By the 1950s her biggest contribution would be the stage adaption of Collette’s Gigi, starring the then unknown Audrey Hepburn who Loos claimed to have discovered in a hotel lobby in Monte Carlo. By the 1960s she would go on to begin writing a volume of memoirs which she would continue to do into the 1970s. On August 18, 1981, Loos would die from natural causes.

Read More About Anita Loos

One of Her Many Memoirs

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#anita loos

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merrilark · 17 hours

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I sit and think about how we’re all just walking our individual paths but sometimes our paths align perfectly with someone else’s and you either walk the rest of your lives together or it’s just for a brief moment in time and you carry on. We’re really all just walking each other home. Life is so magical.

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merrilark · 17 hours

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Hmm... Hot take Friday. Curious if anyone felt the same about H.BO T.LoU?

I think my hottest take about the T.Lo.U TV adaptation besides that I am sad to say that I didn't really like it that much (it's good, don't get me wrong, but I think it really fumbled a lot of key character things that just made it unenjoyable for me personally), is that Bill and Frank's story was beautiful and well done up until the point that Frank decided he wanted to die.

Part of me says I should be okay with it because obviously they're not perfect people and they don't have to be, but I can't quite reconcile with how Frank and Bill's suicide was handled. I didn't enjoy that Frank turned it into a guilt trippy, manipulative thing that forced Bill to kill him and it was portrayed as something romantic that Bill should do. Idk. Just. The presumptuousness of it all from Frank, but especially that the sobbing "I can't" from Bill was immediately followed with Frank's "Do you love me? Then love me the way I want you to" really, really rubbed me the wrong way.

They're old, Frank is terminally ill, it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I know. It's an impossible choice. I'm glad that they expanded on their lives and their romance and the episode otherwise is fun. But yikes the phrasing and the framing of that phrasing in the HBO adaption. I hate to say that it made me dislike Frank. It's such a crappy thing to tell someone and it's played off as both entirely in Frank's right and the correct, romantic thing to say.

I think it would have been nicer to leave Bill's fate undetermined like in the game, or for him to honor Frank after his death by growing and opening up Lincoln to survivors. It would have been a really bittersweet metaphor. Showing Bill being more willing to trust people and open the town and his heart because of Frank's love would have been much more beautiful to me than Bill feeling pressured to kill Frank and then himself if "beautiful, tragic love story" is what they were going for.

Justttttt puts a sour taste in my mouth. Glad the rest exists, hate the final impression.

It's still not as bad as Tess' death, though. I really want to know who thought it would be a good idea to not only make her sacrifice less badass by having her give into the infected vs. standing her ground fighting against FEDRA, but to have her get frenched by a clicker. Game!Tess went out guns blazing and protecting people she loved on her own terms. TV!Tess was uncomfortably and unnecessarily assaulted in a way that maybe was not intended to look rapey, but definitely looked and felt symbolic of rape. If they wanted to show that the infected could share spores via mouth, then do it in a scene that doesn't revolve around a beloved female character's important sacrifice.

Anyway gislfjksfj

I apparently am not yet over it. And don't get me started on TLOU2.

#i used to think i didnt get badly irked by media anymore after being burned by dw. and i think that is mostly true.#but i think t.l.ou is one of those things that was so important to me for so long that shrugging off the irksome bits is harder lol #merri grumbles #this was spurred on by seeing the ship in the ao3 ship poll and i remembered how much it bothered me LOL #rape mention for ts #suicide mention for ts #sexual assault mention for ts

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merrilark · 18 hours

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Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Round 1 Side 2

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

#nooo tk and carlos are losing 😔😔😔😔

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merrilark · 23 hours

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I think any inanimate thing you regularly care for becomes a little alive.

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merrilark · 1 day

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Clara Bow - 1933 - Hoopla

#clara bow

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merrilark · 1 day

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"This character deserves better," I say, making things even worse for them.

#jdfskdjf me with every character i love #but especially sean

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merrilark · 2 days

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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

#wish i was that cool tbqh

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merrilark · 2 days

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